insulate

Other forms of insulate

past tense

insulated·

present participle

insulating·

third person

insulates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about insulate

What does insulate mean?

insulate means "protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in insulate?

insulate has 3 syllables: in-su-late. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnsəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for insulate?

Close synonyms include isolate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insulate a common word?

insulate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with insulate?

56 words rhyme with insulate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.